Recent ARCA Racing Series champions include Chris Buescher, Ty Dillon, Justin Lofton and Justin Allgaier. Lofton is now racing on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Buescher and Dillon on the NASCAR Nationwide Series and Allgaier on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Grant Enfinger of Fairhope could be the next ARCA Racing Series champion. He has three races to make up a 20-point deficit to Mason Mitchell, the current front-runner.

Enfinger crept closer to Mitchell's lead on Labor Day when he won the 61st Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds' 1-mile dirt track in DuQuoin, Ill. Enfinger put his name on a list of Southern Illinois 100 winners that includes A.J. Foyt, Fred Lorenzen, Tony Stewart and Rusty Wallace.

The victory also earned Enfinger the 2014 Bill France Four Crown championship, an award named after NASCAR's founder that was first won in 1984 by another Alabamian, Davey Allison. DuQuion was this year's dirt track. The others were New Jersey Motorsports Park (road), Chicagoland Speedway (superspeedway) and Berlin Raceway (short track). Enfinger also won the Berlin race, finished fourth at New Jersey and seventh at Chicagoland.

"That's amazing," Enfinger said. "I've seen that list (of Four Crown winners). There are a lot of my heroes on that list. ... What an honor to be the Bill France Four Crown champion. One more title to go."

On Monday, Enfinger led a race-high 63 laps in the No. 90 Motor Honey-Casite/Allegiant Travel Chevrolet, including the final 13. Enfinger was second to Justin Boston on the final double-file restart. He beat Boston through Turn 1 and led the rest of the race.

"It took me a few laps to get my rhythm," Enfinger said, "but once I began to figure things out, I started driving it harder and gaining on those guys. Then once I got a little distance, I felt like I could be more consistent. As a whole, we really weren't conserving much. We didn't back into this one. I think we earned it."

The ARCA Series is off until Sept. 13, when it goes to Salem Speedway for the Federated Car Care ARCA Fall Classic. The circuit visits Kentucky Speedway for the ZLOOP 150 on Sept. 19 and concludes the season with the ARCA 98.9 at Kansas Speedway.

Enfinger counts the series' first visit to Salem this year on April 27 among his series-high six victories in 2014.